Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.